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Message #113408 posted by imnother (Info) March 18, 2008 13:10:54 ET
In Reply to: Who Saved Clara Barton's Life? posted by dana west (Info) March 18, 2008 05:47:00 ET
Howdy Dana....Interesting story . I never heard that one, but Clara Barton
[ the one born in Mass in the 1800's.] But she claimed to be a "well disposed pagan" , but her parents helped found the Universalist Church which is an offshoot of French Huegenot which are my roots also.
She dabbled with "healing mediums" and astrologers, spiritualists, and had seance chats with General Grant, Abe Lincoln, and her feminist friend Susan B. Anthony.
"I was born free" was her saying....
When I [sar]was a very small girl my mom died so I found my female hero's in books as I always read to escape even to this day. Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, Joan of Arc, Pochahontas, Queen Elizabeth I and her mother Anne,[don't miss the new season of the TUDORS on Showtime soon BTW]...
You guys will love it because lots of sex and beheading of women going on in the Tudor days.
But Clara in particular was my hero because she was educated as a teacher and founded the first school in New Jersey and took no salary to teach there....BUT they would not let a woman be the head of the school so A MAN WAS HIRED TO OVERSEE HER!!!! with a good salary!!!!!!
the man made life hard for Clara and she finally told him to "go fuck himself"
oops wrong Clara Barton...LOL!
Actually she told him "I may sometimes be willing to work for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall NEVER DO A MAN'S WORK FOR LESS THAN A MANS PAY."
you go girl!
Soooo she took her ass to D.C. and worked in the patent office as a copy-clerk and was deeply resented by her male counterparts. BUT SHE GOT EQUAL PAY!!! Before it was considered the CORRECT thing to do. She was promoted to inspector and found many discrepencies in the work of the very men who gave her a hard time.
Lesson # 1...don't piss off an intelligent female who may someday be your boss!
The Civil War was starting up and Clara was
"intensely patriotic" as her father was Captain Barton who fought with Gen.[mad dog] Wayne in the Indian Wars[sorry Hempity]Native American.
So she decided to go to the FRONT and nurse the wounded and dying soldiers. She earned the title
"angel of the battlefield" for some bravery at the battle of Cedar Mountain. She once was nursing a man and a shot tore through her dress and killed the soldier she was caring for. "under all lies the life of a nation" she said.
Wish we had brave YOUNG like that these days.
She did a lot of other things most who are not history buffs don't realize. She after years of lobbying helped secure the Geneva Treaty and in May of 1881...American Red Cross was founded by her....she was head of it until .....
She was also at the Franco-Prussian War and was in Cuba in the Spanish American War[our fault entirely that war BTW]
76-82 she was ill and exhausted and under medical care herself. She was at the 1867 World Suffragette Conference where she met her friend Susan B. Anthony....
1867 she gave a historical speech[in the womens world] to a bunch of Civil War Vets in Iowa who hated Susan B. FOR SEEKING equality for MERE WOMEN!
We ain't been free long guys!
"Soldiers...you have called me here to speak to you of the war WE LIVED TOGETHER...I have done it...Now I have a word to you I wish speak to you"
"You glorify women who made their way to the front to reach you in your misery, and nursed you back to life...you called us angels."
"and soldiers, for every woman's hand that cooled your fevered brow....staunched your bleeding wounds...gave food to your famishing bodies...or water to your parched lips, and called back to life to your perishing bodies, YOU SHOULD BLESS GOD FOR SUSAN B.ANTHONY, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,FRANCES D. GAGE AND THEIR FOLLOWERS!"
Followers......that be me!
then she said "git your asses up and applaud these women soldiers." not really....wrong clara again....
she actually said "three cheers for Susan B. Anthony and ALL MEN ROSE and applauded." COURAGE IS WHAT CLARA HAD...BALLS...KAHONEES!!! Whatever your culture calls it.
So lesson # 2 'DON'T PISS OFF THE NURSES YOU MIGHT NEED SOMEDAY.
So you regulars I am sure see the parallels of the old Clara Barton and the Crazy Whackadoo disassociative Clara Barton who flew in here one day UNDER EXTREME STRESS and left highly pissed at old Budsy!!! Later to love him dearly even though he is whackadoo also, but funny!
Clara and Sara were women who did not let "normal mores and traditions steal their rights to be FREE!" Both refuse to "BOW TO ANY MAN!" .......except in sex.....lol...just kidding.
They were kind of "female "Hempity's"
who won't let society dictate their thoughts and behavior and have the balls to stand up for what they believe in even though it ain't mainstream!.....
...Just kidding when I get off color here and you regulars know of my refinery days and social;izing with refinery rednecks early in my life and now I get along better with men than women and now AM IN A DAMN CAREER THAT IS MOSTLY BITCHY ASS WOMEN....and don't get the mod of SF on my ass about morality because we don't want goodie two shoes here ANYWAY who can't take it.
The Morality PO PO!!!! Big Dog!!! LOL!!! on a liberal pot site no less...bizarre.
"The past leads us if we force it to...otherwise it contains us in its asylum with no gates ,,,,We make history or it makes us."
Hey Hemp I just thought of another thing the original Clara Barton said and I have to find exactly how she says it, but it is inspiring to any elder like us. My little baby boy here is not happy so I must tend to him for a while...later gentlemen of the board!
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